After Delays, Smith-9th Street Subway Station to Reopen

Subway service will return to the Smith-9th Street station in Brooklyn on April 22, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority told community leaders Thursday night, restoring a sorely missed access point for the transit system in a now-booming neighborhood.

The subway station — which the MTA calls the highest in the world — sits near the middle of the Culver Viaduct, a 79-year-old, curving steel and concrete structure that carries the F and G trains from the corridor of Smith Street southeast toward Park Slope.

The construction project added both ornamental touches — a 14-foot-tall mosaic — as well as lighting, closed-circuit TV cameras and an enclosed escalator to the station, which towers above the intersection for which it is named, just adjacent to the Gowanus Canal.